Barn door Painting in Plaster and Acrylic paint

Barn Door Painting 

During one weekend, i went to a friends house. His family owned a farm and hundreds of acres of land. I love the countryside, growing up in boarding school in North Yorkshire i grew to love the countryside. 

When i went to his house, i spent hours admiring the outdoors which lead to this piece. 

Yes i love the countryside but what i found fascinating on my long walks was discovering old buildings, the texture of them, the damages they had endured through weather, the interior...etc

I started documenting what i saw and photographed all that interests me. 

The moss growing on the buildings, the wear and tear the building and its materials have suffered through, the building body texture, the colour, the smell, the silent. 

I wanted to paint a still life of a barn door i came across. 

covering ¾ of the space, darkness inside gave contrast to the mould and mud on the once white painted door outside. the bricks growing with fungus on its surrounds. it was beautiful. 

I experimented with plaster, i wanted a 3 dimensional appeal that would really pop out th canvas. More than just a painting. 

I wanted the texture on the barn door so i experimented with the use of different kinds of cardboard. 

Finally after all the experimenting i knew how to proceed so i did and the outcome was amazing. 

This was the canvas i painted on but what i did was stuck ripped pieces of cardboard only on the areas i saw fit. it would create that extra depth and texture to make the overall more 3D. 

I used plaster and put it on top moulding it into brick like shapes. 

Acrylic after that. 

The annotations below are my analysis to the finished piece of painting after. to see what went well and what did not. 

In the end, i think the qualities of the cardboard and the plaster really gave this piece that compelling aesthetics that created a vas contrast between the elements of the painting. the darkness roughly in the middle brightens everything up. 

When you see this piece up close the texture looks so real that it drags you in to touch it.